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On Aristotle "Physics 5" (Hardcover)
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On Aristotle "Physics 5" (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Aristotle's "Physics Book 3" covers two subjects: the definition of
change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the
very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change
receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2, as involving the
actualisation of the potential or of the changeable. Alexander of
Aphrodisias is reported as thinking that the second version is
designed to show that Book 3, like Book 5, means to disqualify
change in relations from being genuine change. Aristotle's
successor Theophrastus, we are told, and Simplicius himself, prefer
to admit relational change. Chapter 3 introduces a general causal
principle that the activity of the agent causing change is in the
patient undergoing change, and that the causing and undergoing are
to be counted as only one activity, however different in
definition. Simplicius points out that this paves the way for
Aristotle's God who moves the heavens, while admitting no motion in
himself. It is also the basis of Aristotle's doctrine, central to
Neoplatonism, that intellect is one with the objects it
contemplates. In defending Aristotle's claim that the universe is
spatially finite, Simplicius has to meet Archytas' question, "What
happens at the edge?". He replies that, given Aristotle's
definition of place, there is nothing, rather than an empty place,
beyond the furthest stars, and one cannot stretch one's hand into
nothing, nor be prevented by nothing. But why is Aristotle's
beginningless universe not temporally infinite? Simplicius answers
that the past years no longer exist, so one never has in infinite
collection.
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